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Winesburg, Ohio

Contributors

By Sherwood Anderson

Formats and Prices

On Sale
Feb 2, 2027
Page Count
208 pages
Publisher
Union Square & Co.
ISBN-13
9781454971139

Price

$9.99

Price

$12.99 CAD

Format

Format:

  1. Trade Paperback $9.99 $12.99 CAD
  2. ebook $4.99 $6.99 CAD

A foundational work of American Modernist literature, Winesburg, Ohio is an interconnected collection of short stories following life and repression in a small town alongside a young man’s coming of age, now freshly repackaged for the Union Square & Co. Signature Classics Line.

Set in and named after the fictionalized town of Winesburg, Ohio, Sherwood Anderson’s 1919 collection of interconnected short stories served as a foundational work of American Modernist literature. Based loosely on the author’s childhood in Ohio, the work is structured around the life and coming-of-age of its protagonist, George Willard, following him from childhood to independence, when he eventually chooses to abandon the town as a young man. The collection depicts the fraught reality of a small Midwestern town, and at its time, it was highly controversial for its daring portrayal of sexual freedom and rejection of conventional restraints. Anderson’s work had a profound impact on American literature, influencing renowned writers such as Hemingway and Faulkner. The poet Hart Crane praised how “Winesburg, Ohio, when it first appeared, kept me up a whole night in a steady crescendo of emotion.”


Sherwood Anderson

About the Author

Sherwood Anderson (1876–1941) was an American novelist and short story writer, and an influential figure in American Modernist literature. Having grown up in Ohio, he worked as a copywriter and business owner until 1912, when he had a nervous breakdown that led him to abandon his life and become a writer. Anderson is best known for his short story collection, Winesburg, Ohio (1919).

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